sustainability
Sustainability is now a cross-curriculum priority in the NSW syllabus, as part of the introduction of the Australian curriculum.
Resources have been organised into focus areas and cross-curriculum priorities.
Each area contains a range of activities and resources that can be used in the classroom and across your school.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sustainableschools/cross-curriculum.htm
Resources for primary school students
Education resources for students aged 5-12.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/edresources/ResourcesForStudentsAged5-12.htm
NSW BioNet the website for the Atlas of NSW Wildlife
a whole-of-government system for flora and fauna sightings information
http://www.ala.org.au/
Primary years 3 to 6 http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sustainableschools/cross-curriculum.htm
Teaching for Sustainability
Learning for sustainability seeks to enable and empower students to make decisions and take actions that contribute to creating a sustainable society and ecosystem. Sustainability action is both a preferred pedagogical approach for teaching sustainability and an essential set of knowledge and skills for students to learn.
This learning is best delivered through a wide range of teaching and learning activities utilising all of the Key Learning Areas. Students will develop strong environmental knowledge, awareness and capacity for positive environmental change when it contextualised or taught using real examples, problem solving and with active student participation.
Sustainability Action Process (SAP)
This process supports students to identify, investigate and take sustainability action. When sustainability action is applied as a systematic process to issues and needs, it can be modelled, reapplied to new problems and learned by students with increasing levels of sophistication and complexity. The ultimate learning goal is for students to be able to implement sustainability action with such fluency that they can operate independently of the need for a scaffolded process. The Sustainability action process has five steps:
Resources have been organised into focus areas and cross-curriculum priorities.
Each area contains a range of activities and resources that can be used in the classroom and across your school.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sustainableschools/cross-curriculum.htm
Resources for primary school students
Education resources for students aged 5-12.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/edresources/ResourcesForStudentsAged5-12.htm
NSW BioNet the website for the Atlas of NSW Wildlife
a whole-of-government system for flora and fauna sightings information
http://www.ala.org.au/
Primary years 3 to 6 http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sustainableschools/cross-curriculum.htm
- Biodiversity
- Energy use and efficiency
- Kitchen gardens
- Waste and materials
- Water use and efficiency
- Thermal comfort (to be published later in 2017)
- Transport
Teaching for Sustainability
Learning for sustainability seeks to enable and empower students to make decisions and take actions that contribute to creating a sustainable society and ecosystem. Sustainability action is both a preferred pedagogical approach for teaching sustainability and an essential set of knowledge and skills for students to learn.
This learning is best delivered through a wide range of teaching and learning activities utilising all of the Key Learning Areas. Students will develop strong environmental knowledge, awareness and capacity for positive environmental change when it contextualised or taught using real examples, problem solving and with active student participation.
Sustainability Action Process (SAP)
This process supports students to identify, investigate and take sustainability action. When sustainability action is applied as a systematic process to issues and needs, it can be modelled, reapplied to new problems and learned by students with increasing levels of sophistication and complexity. The ultimate learning goal is for students to be able to implement sustainability action with such fluency that they can operate independently of the need for a scaffolded process. The Sustainability action process has five steps:
- Making a case for change
- Developing the scope
- Defining the proposal
- Implementing
- Evaluating and reflecting
- Sustainability Action Process Learning Resources
- Sustainability Education presentations
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